Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27248965-20170418161124

This is the final warning to all users who have spammed photos in the comments of main namespace articles before: Stop your actions at once! If modifying your post to mere bullet points is not enough to stop you, we have to erase your comments. If erasing your replies is still not enough, we can send warnings directly to your message walls. And in the worst case scenario where even warning messages cannot stop you, we might be forced to entirely shut down the whole comment section for main articles, making it like Wikipedia and Bulbapedia where separate Talk pages have to be created for each article.

We really do not want to take down a feature that allows easier reply when the contributors have actual suggestions or when they find any mistakes, as well as crashing of tables and templates to report. We already felt like jeopardizing the freedom of speech by taking actions on the comments, but if we did not do so, the comment sections are going to become entirely useless. It is also a big hassle to use the Talk pages instead of article comments, because signatures are no longer automatically generated, forcing everyone to manually add the codes. We will also have to watch out for any unsigned comments and revamp the current discussion rules.

All Administrators and Discussion Moderators, you are given the right to edit or erase the spam posts since the day you are promoted. Please get to work, patrol the articles and delete / modify the comments whenever necessary, to get rid of the image spams. No need to request for permission from Smarties, any Administrators or myself as long as you are sure that if the comment you are about to delete is a blatant spam. I will help in deleting when I have time, you guys are not alone in carrying out this task. 